Kettle attachment



(No Model.)

L W BUXTON KBTTLB ATTACHMENT.

Noi 432,017. Patented July 15, 18910.`

YIIIIIIIII TUT.: (97114( /Z UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LEVI IV. BUXTON, OF NASIIUA, NEV HAMPSHIRE.

KETTLE ATTACHMENT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 432,017, dated July 15, 1890 Application iiled December 2, 1889. Serial No.332,250. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern,.-

Be it known that I, LEVI IV. BUXTON, of Nashua, in the county of Hillsborough, State of New Hampshire, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Kettle Attachments, of which the following is a description sufficiently full, clear, and exact to enable any person skilled in the art or science to which said invention appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, forming part of this specification.

The figure in the drawing is a side elevation of a tea-kettle provided with my improved kettle attachment, a portion of the body of the kettle being broken away to show the interior thereof.

My invention relates to an attachment for that class of kettles which are employed for heating water; and it consists in certain novel features hereinafter fully set forth and claimed, the object bein g to produce a simpler7 cheaper, and more effective device of this character than is now in ordinary use.

The nature and operation of the improve ment will be readily understood by all conversant with such matters from the following explanation.

In the drawing, A represents the body of the kettle, which is cylindrical in form and is provided with ahandle h and nose d. A cap fis attached to the nose by a chain g, and is adapted to close the mouth thereof. The mouth of thekettle is enlarged to receive the attachment D. This attachment consists of an annular plate tot larger diameter than the kettle-mouth, and a dependent cylinder h, extending downward from the inner edge of said plate. The platee' partially closes the kettle-1nouth, its outer edge projecting over the edge of said mouth. The plate is provided on its under side with an annular flange k, which fits into the k ettle-mouth, preventing lateral movement of the attachment. The inner portion m of the annular plate ris concaved, whereby when a large vessel is disposed on said plate a space is formed between the bottom of said vessel and said plate, which permits the steam to come in contact with downwardly-converging walls, as shown; but

I do not coniine myself to such construction.

In the use of this improved kettle attachment the kettle to which it is applied may be employed for all the ordinary uses of kettles of this description. IVhen the attachment is applied to the kettle, the annular plate t' partially closes the kettle-mouth and the cylinder h hangs within the kettle. lNhen it is desired to steam articles of food, the cover C is removed from the top of the cylinder and the utensil containing the articles to be steamed is disposed on the annular plate e' over the top of said cylinder. The bottom of said cylinder being open and unobstructed, the steam or vapor from the water Within the kettle, or within the cylinderin case the waterlevel is above the lower end of the cylinder, passes upward through said cylinder into or into contact with the utensil containing the articles to be steamed. The steam outside the cylinder, between it and the body of the kettle, constitutes a steam-jacket, which surrounds the cylinder and maintains an even temperature therein, preventing the condensation ofthe steam therein contained. Owing to this jacket7 it is found in practical use of the attachment that the contents of various utensils disposed thereon are .more rapidly heated than when said utensils are disposed over an ordinary kettle-mouth.

I'Iaving thus explained my invention, what I claim isl.. A kettle attachment consisting of an annular plate provided with a iiange adapted to iit within the kettle-mouth and a dependent cylinder extending downward from said annular plate, said cylinder being open and unobstructed at its lower end and adapted to form a steam-jacket between itself and the inner walls of thekettle when applied thereto, substantially as described.

2. The colnbinationof a kettle and a kettle jacket between itself andthe wall of tbe ketattaehment consisting of an annular plate tle, substantially as described. provided with a lianoe ttilw within the mouth of the kettle altld a depbendent eylin- LEVI YV' BUXTON' 5 der extending downward from said annular Witnesses:

plate, said cylinder being open and nnob- JOHN H. VIOKEY, struoted atits lower end and forming asteam- B. B. XVHITTEMORE. 

